James Alan Gardner Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#People #Strange #Feels
“That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Leadership #Stupid #Play
“Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Order #Bullshit #Weight
“Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Choices #Sacred #Hydrogen
“Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Adventure #Safety #Comatose
“Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Beautiful #Wise #Strong
“You donâ€™t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Running #Weight #Increase
“I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Eerie #Luck #Made
“Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Hurt #Mistake #People
“I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Numbers #People #Poop
“What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Reality #Thinking #Firsts
“Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.”
-- James Alan Gardner

#Glasses #Toxic #Half

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